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Tuesday, 9 April 2013

‘Think of the Children’ by Kerry Wilkinson

Published by Pan, 28 February 2012. ISBN: 978-1-4472-2340-5

I was looking forward to
reading this book for two reasons - I had read of the author’s success in
self-publishing as e-books and I knew that he set his books in the Manchester area. Sohere we have a female Detective
Sergeant called Jessica Daniel who is first on the scene when a car crashes on
her route to work.The shock for her is
not really finding that the driver is dead but discovering the body of a child
wrapped in plastic in the car boot.

The tale develops from this exciting beginning as the case becomes one
of child abductions stretching back into the past.Jessica is a feisty heroine and I was
immediately interested in what made her tick as a detective and a woman.Other characters around her are well
delineated as she grapples with the mystery.There were clever twists as the story developed and a satisfactory
conclusion.The local background was
good too.

Returning to my initial comment about self-publishing as e-books I do
wonder if this is the way things are going; after all the 50 Shades of Grey
books were e-books at first.

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Reviewer: Jennifer
Palmer

Kerry Wilkinson is
something of an accidental author. His debut, Locked In, was written as a challenge to himself but, after
self-publishing, it became a UK
number one bestseller within three months of release. His three initial Jessica
Daniel books sold over 300,000 copies through word-of-mouth, making him
Amazon's UK No.1 author for the final quarter of 2011, its biggest-ever sales
period. In February 2012, he agreed a six-book deal with Pan Macmillan for the
Jessica Daniel books. In October 2012, it was announced the same publisher had
also bought a sci-fi/fantasy/adventure series - the Silver Blackthorn trilogy -
which will start to be released in October/November 2013.

Jennifer Palmer Throughout my
reading life crime fiction has been a constant interest; I really enjoyed my 15
years as an expatriate in the Far East, the Netherlands
& the USA
but occasionally the solace of closing my door to the outside world and sitting
reading was highly therapeutic. I now lecture to adults on historical topics
including Famous Historical Mysteries.

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From an early age I have been a lover of crime fiction. Discovering like minded people at my first crime conference at St Hilda’s Oxford in 1997, I was delighted when asked to join a new group for the promotion of female crime writers. In 1998 I took over the running of the group, which I did for the next thirteen years.
During that time I organised countless events promoting crime writers and in particular new writers. But apart from the sheer joy of reading, ‘I actually love books, not just the writing, the plot or the characters, but the sheer joy of holding a book has never abated for me. The greatest gift of my life has been the ability to read'.